I am also pleased to have a second feature article from Marko Rodriguez, this time with co-author Peter Neubauer. Marko is a specialist in graph databases and graph theory, and, as such, is very mathematically oriented in his work. But graph theory is an important science underlying a great deal of the current development in data structures and databases, for example, for RDF – the subject of
Marko’s previous article – and Marko is fortunately willing to undertake the difficult task of making some of this material accessible. If you have wondered how graph representations of RDF are processed or what comes next in database development after the relational model, this article is for you. When I was teaching in the area of contemporary knowledge organization, I would have welcomed it wholeheartedly as a valuable reading, and I hope many of you will share that view.

In the other significant event, also in April, the ASIS&T Information Professional Task Force “went international” as Nancy Roderer and Gail Bonath report, when Nancy Roderer lead a
People to People delegation to China to “discuss the education and promotion of information professionals.” The location of some Chinese LIS schools within information institutions was one interesting feature of the Chinese experience that the delegation explored – along, of course, with quite a lot of excellent fun and food.

Finally, ASIS&T President Gary Marchionini reflects on his President’s Page about the nature of the Society as we approach our 75th anniversary in 2012, a precursor of things to come.